SDET – QA Automation Engineer
Permanent - Full TimeJob Overview
At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy.
Team Mission 🚀
We are looking for a hands-on SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) with 4–5 years of
experience in automation, primarily in Java, functional testing of front-end applications.
The role will cover UI and/or API automation in a dynamiclending/banking domain, built on
AWS cloud infrastructure
At OakNorth, we’re on a mission to empower the UK’s most ambitious businesses. Since 2015, we’ve lent over $18 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while fuelling the UK economy.
Team Mission 🚀
We are looking for a hands-on SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) with 4–5 years of
experience in automation, primarily in Java, functional testing of front-end applications.
The role will cover UI and/or API automation in a dynamiclending/banking domain, built on
AWS cloud infrastructure
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks (Java-based) for both UI and
- API layers.
- Build, execute, and maintain automated regression suites tied into CI/CD pipelines (e.g.,
- Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline).
- Collaborate with development, product, operations and QA teams from early requirement
- and design phases to production release, ensuring quality is built-in (shift-left).
- Define test strategies, identify test coverage gaps, ensure test data management,
- environment provisioning, and automate test execution in AWS environments (e.g., EC2,
- Lambda, containers).
- Validate functionality, performance and reliability of lending/banking domain-specific
- workflows (e.g., credit decisioning, loan lifecycle, user onboarding, payments, risk).
- Monitor, analyse and report test metrics and quality indicators; raise risks, drive
- continuous improvement in quality processes.
- Stay current with test automation tools, frameworks, best practices, and domain trends
- (fintech, lending, banking) and propose improvements.
- Required Skills & Experience
- 4-5 years of professional experience as QA Automation Engineer / SDET with primary
- hands-on in Java.
- Strong experience in automation of UI (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright) and
- API (e.g., RestAssured, Postman, Karate) layers — ideally both.
- Solid object-oriented programming skills (Java) and test framework experience (e.g.,
- TestNG, JUnit, Cucumber/BDD).
- Understanding of the banking/lending domain: loan application flows, credit approval,
- underwriting, lifecycle of financial products or banking operations.
- Good analytical and problem-solving capabilities; ability to work in fast paced, startup-style
- environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams and geographies.
- Key Attributes
- Personal drive (proactive), responsible, and result-oriented.
- Flexible, curious, creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
Key Attributes
- Personal drive (proactive), responsible, and result-oriented.
- Flexible, curious, creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
- Fast learner with the ability to adapt to evolving technologies and frameworks.
- Strong team player with excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Domain experience in lending, credit risk, banking channels (digital banking, SME lending,
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline with 4-5
- years of work experience
commercial lending).
Education